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Genetic control of conventional and pheromone-stimulated biofilm formation in Candida albicans.
PLoS pathogens - 1 Jan 2013
Lin Ching-Hsuan, Kabrawala Shail, Fox Emily P, Nobile Clarissa J, Johnson Alexander D, Bennett Richard J
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Candida albicans can stochastically switch between two phenotypes, white and opaque. Opaque cells are the sexually competent form of C. albicans and therefore undergo efficient polarized growth and mating in the presence of pheromone. In contrast, white cells cannot mate, but are induced - under...
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